Time.com features my belly paintings!

featured some of the pregnant bellies that I painted in a photo feature! Click on the paintings to go to the article on Time.com's website.

Glamour Magazine links to Pregnant Belly Painting!

from http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2009/05/kind-of-fun-or-a-little-nuts-w.html Here's the article!

Women Who Paint Their Pregnant Bellies: Kind of Fun or a Little Nuts?

Wednesday, 05/13/2009 at 4:45 PM 9 Comments

Photo: iStock

I think pregnant bellies--of all shapes and sizes--are adorable. Although being pregnant was not my fave thing, I did like my basketball belly (mostly for the reason that I didn't have to suck in my stomach, ever!). But, would I roll up my shirt and paint a big fat smiley face, or hearts and unicorns on it? Um, no thanks! Yet, this is what some women are doing...

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Apparently the new trend in baby bumps is painted baby bumps. Seriously. The Daily Mail ran an article that took a look at this kind-of-strange trend. The body art includes fish, smiley faces, baseball motifs, and more--all painted on pregnant bellies!

And, there's more: Here's a belly painting company (yes, really) in the New York area, and check out these intricate belly art designs.

A day in the life of a body painter....

Yesterday was a pretty exciting day.
In the morning, I painted Olivia's belly for a segment on ABC.com. I'll let you know when it's posted. I tried to incorporate some of Olivia's favorite things as design motifs. Olivia love red and ladybugs. She has wonderful memories of her honeymoon in Hawaii and the baby's name mean "long lived treasure". Figuring out how to put Hawaii and a treasure together was the easy part. Figuring out how to incorporate the lady bug, not so much.
In the evening, I painted the rapper, Pandemonium for a performance. He brought reference, a design that he saw online that he wanted modified to include the blues of his sweater and the letter "P".

I know I promised pics of Bobby & dinosaurs

It's also at http://www.keyetv.com/content/news/topnews/story/Pregnant-bellies-become-canvasses-for-art/DL81zVYAfUOIsl2rox8gHw.cspx

Last month, I painted a pregnant belly and did an interview for CBS affiliates. Aside from having about 5 minutes to paint, looking like heck in the video, that they got the prices wrong & the complete lack of plugs that they got in for http://www.pregnantbellypainting.com/ , it worked out fine. ;)

Thanks to my model, the lovely Carla.

Tomorrow there will be body painting pictures of Bobby with LIVE dinosaurs! Would you believe plastic dinosaurs? Would you believe that they try to eat her? Would you believe that she tries to eat them? She does! Pictures tomorrow. I pinky swear!